Families in the schools that feed into Atlanta’s Grady High School will learn tonight how Superintendent Meria Carstarphen intends to relieve crowding in their cluster’s schools.
Carstarphen will hold a public meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at Inman Middle School, 774 Virginia Ave NE, to present her final proposal.
One possibility is reopening Howard High School as a middle school and turning Inman Middle School into an elementary school. Other district proposals have involved using Howard in various configurations.
Repurposing Howard is the latest idea in years of debate about how to ease crowding at Inman Middle School and other Grady cluster schools, which are some of Atlanta’s most crowded.
In recent years, alumni and neighbors have urged APS to renovate and reopen Howard, which originally served as a segregated elementary school for black students. It closed in 1976.
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